K. David Patterson

...Lactose is a disaccharide composed of linked molecules of the simple sugars glucose and galactose. Dietary lactose is obtained almost exclusively from milk. Infants and young children digest lactose with an enzyme,lactase, which splits...

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and chair of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...The world is but a hill of beans. Nearly every place on earth has its own native species and nearly every culture has depended on beans. For many people, they have made the difference between life and death. Beans are practically...

Kenneth F. Kiple

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Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas

...We began work on the Cambridge History and Culture of Food and Nutrition Project even as we were still reading the page proofs for The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, published in 1993. At some point in that effort we had begun...

Irina D. Mihalache is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...“Food, glorious food” is the opening song from Lionel Bart’s 1960s musical—later turned into a film—Oliver! based on Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. As the rag-dressed orphans line-up for their daily bowl of unappetizing gruel...

Susan Parham is Head of Urbanism in the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...A reminder about some key themes
Food and Urbanism has sought to explore some of the critical ways that food interconnects with place, and how that affects, for good or ill, possibilities for conviviality...

Jakob Wenzer

...Differing from most of the food-words discussed in this volume, the term foodscape is one that has not worked its way into everyday vocabulary. Neither is it a very well-known concept in food studies research. Within those contexts where...